Strengthen your security with a practical, actionable roadmap.
CIS18 consulting helps you understand whether your security program is strong and reliable, or patched together from tools, policies, and good intentions.
CIS18 Controls give organizations a trusted framework for reducing cyber risk and building confidence in the security work that matters most. The challenge is turning the framework into real controls, especially inside Microsoft 365 and Azure environments.
Covenant Technology Solutions helps you assess where you stand, prioritize the gaps that create the most risk, and implement the controls in a way your team can actually maintain.
Roadmap snapshot
CIS18 consulting should give leadership a clear picture, not another stack of generic recommendations.
Core idea: CIS18 becomes valuable when it moves from a checklist to a working security roadmap. Covenant helps translate the controls into practical action across Microsoft identity, devices, data, network, cloud, monitoring, and user behavior.
What is included in CIS18 consulting
We help you understand what is working, where gaps exist, and which security improvements should happen first.
CIS18 security assessment and gap analysis
We review your current security program against the CIS18 Controls to identify risks, weaknesses, missing ownership, and practical next steps.
Tailored risk management strategy
Your roadmap should fit your industry, size, users, data, and Microsoft environment. We help focus effort on the risks that matter most.
Implementation roadmap and technical support
Recommendations are only useful if someone can act on them. We support hands-on implementation for controls such as MFA, endpoint protection, segmentation, logging, and access policy.
Security awareness and training
We help employees understand common threats, phishing risk, access expectations, and the simple behaviors that reduce everyday exposure.
Monitoring and control maintenance
Security does not stay fixed by itself. We help you define review rhythms, monitoring expectations, evidence needs, and ownership so controls do not quietly drift.
Audit-ready documentation
Whether the driver is leadership, insurance, a customer requirement, or a formal framework, we help document what controls exist and how they are maintained.
Microsoft-first CIS18 implementation
Most organizations already own security capability inside Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Defender, Intune, and Azure. The question is whether those controls are configured, aligned, and governed.
Who can get in?
Multi-factor authentication, conditional access, privileged access, and account lifecycle controls reduce the easiest ways attackers enter.
What can connect?
Endpoint protection, device configuration, patching, and visibility help ensure workstations and mobile devices do not become weak links.
What can users reach?
Access policy, data protection, retention, sharing controls, and backup strategy help protect the information your business depends on.
Why choose Covenant for CIS18 consulting
We bring Microsoft-first engineering, security-first operations, and compliance-aware guidance into one practical path your organization can follow.
Specialized Microsoft expertise
We help CIS18 controls fit the Microsoft environment you actually use: Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID, Defender, Intune, email, endpoints, and data.
Clear, actionable guidance
Your team receives plain-English priorities, technical next steps, and a roadmap that separates urgent fixes from longer-term improvements.
Risk mitigation that fits your business
We tailor recommendations to your industry, budget, internal capacity, cyber insurance expectations, and customer requirements.
End-to-end security support
We can help with assessment, remediation, Fortify hardening, monitoring handoff, operational support, and ongoing governance.
Regulated environment experience
Covenant is CJIS certified and helps organizations use CIS18 as a practical foundation for CMMC, ITAR, CJIS, and other readiness conversations.
Ongoing support and governance
Controls need owners, review cycles, documentation, and steady maintenance. We help keep the program from fading after the initial push.
How the engagement works
CIS18 consulting should leave your team with a usable roadmap and the confidence to act.
We start with the current state, then move into prioritization, implementation planning, and governance. The result is not a generic report. It is a staged plan your leaders, IT team, and security stakeholders can use.
- Identify gaps against CIS18 Controls
- Rank recommendations by risk and effort
- Map controls to Microsoft tools and operational owners
- Document evidence for leadership, insurance, customers, or audits
Current-state review
We review your controls, Microsoft configuration, policies, users, devices, data, backups, monitoring, and evidence.
Gap analysis
We identify where current practices do not meet the intent of the CIS18 Controls and where risk is concentrated.
Roadmap
You receive prioritized recommendations with realistic sequencing, effort, ownership, and business context.
Implementation support
Covenant can help execute technical changes, support training, coordinate owners, and maintain control evidence.
Related Covenant services
CIS18 often points organizations toward Microsoft hardening, secure configuration, better monitoring, and a clearer readiness path.
Microsoft 365 Secure Score Assessment
Benchmark your Microsoft 365 security posture and prioritize practical gaps before control work expands.
Explore Microsoft 365 Secure ScoreFortify
Microsoft cyber hardening across identity, email, devices, data protection, governance, and AI readiness.
Explore FortifyCompliance Readiness Program
Prepare controls and evidence for CMMC, ITAR, CJIS, CIS18, and other readiness expectations.
Explore compliance readinessAlways On IT Operations
Keep patching, monitoring, user support, vendor coordination, and control maintenance from becoming reactive.
Explore Always On ITRequest a Fortify baseline review
Many CIS18 findings lead back to the same Microsoft security foundations: identity, endpoints, email, data access, monitoring, and governance. Fortify turns those recommendations into a staged hardening program.
- Reduce the everyday gaps attackers target first
- Move from assessment findings to actual control work
- Build a more defensible Microsoft 365 security baseline
CIS18 consulting questions
A few clear answers before starting a CIS18 security assessment or implementation roadmap.
What are the CIS18 Controls, and why are they important?
The CIS18 Controls are best practices from the Center for Internet Security that help organizations improve cybersecurity, reduce cyber risk, and prioritize practical security work.
How does the gap analysis help my organization?
The gap analysis shows where current practices do not fully meet the CIS18 Controls and gives you a practical roadmap for addressing the highest-risk improvements first.
What is included in the implementation roadmap?
The roadmap includes recommended steps, sequencing, owners, timelines, technical considerations, and the resources needed to put priority controls in place.
Can Covenant help implement the controls?
Yes. We can provide hands-on technical support so controls are configured correctly and fit your Microsoft 365, Azure, endpoint, network, and operational environment.
Why is monitoring important after implementing CIS18 Controls?
Monitoring helps confirm that controls remain effective, catches drift, supports investigation, and keeps security from becoming a one-time project.
Can Covenant help prepare for audits or customer reviews?
Yes. We help organize control evidence, documentation, and technical validation so your organization can answer security, insurance, customer, or audit questions more confidently.
Is CIS18 the same as CMMC, ITAR, or CJIS?
No. CIS18 is a security control framework, while CMMC, ITAR, and CJIS are different regulatory or contractual expectations. CIS18 can provide a strong practical foundation for readiness work.
Where should we start?
Start with a CIS18 assessment conversation. We will help determine whether your first step should be a gap analysis, Microsoft 365 Secure Score Assessment, Fortify baseline review, or broader compliance readiness discussion.
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